Jun. 3rd, 2006

urbpan: (dandelion)

Photos by [livejournal.com profile] cottonmanifesto. Location: Riverway, between Brookline Ave and Parkway road.
Urban species #154: Yellow flag Iris pseudacoris

It's surprising to come across a wildflower so large and showy as yellow flag, especially in the city. This attractive iris has escaped cultivation and can be found in drainage ditches, pondsides and other wet urban areas. Sometimes, like cattail, it's deliberately planted in polluted areas, because it is known to remove metals from the soil. Unfortunately, despite being useful and beautiful, this plant is also powerfully invasive, forming monocultural stands in the same way that Japanese knotweed, purple loosestrife, and phragmites reeds do.


Location: Ward's pond, Olmsted Park.
urbpan: (lichen)
Or anyone else that knows their way around slime molds and such? We found these little guys who look an awful lot like Lycogala to me, but I've never seen wolf's milk grow directly on soil before. I've always seen it on wood. What gives?



[livejournal.com profile] cottonmanifesto squeezed one yesterday and the requisite pink goo came out. Today she squoze one and it was powdery.

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